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Tennessee Code Annotated §55-10-402 and Tennessee Code Annotated §55-10-403 prescribes the term and means of the sentences and fines related to a DUI offense. If you are charged with DUI, First Offense, you are subjected to a sentence of ...

In a recent case, a customer of a local tire dealer had driven up to get his tires replaced. The tire dealer believed our client to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They called law enforcement and the client was charged with driving on a ...

In a recent criminal case, Attorney Troy Bowlin represented a client originally investigated on the charges of Attempted First Degree Murder. The client was being accused of shooting at their spouse in the aftermath of an argument the two were ...

Morristown criminal defense attorney, Troy L. Bowlin, kept his client out of prison as the court found the defendant to be Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. Just one of the client's felony charges could have meant as much as 8 years in prison. ...

An encounter at a DUI checkpoint between a college student and a police officer in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is gaining national attention and sparking much conversation around water coolers about the constitutional validity of DUI checkpoints ...

On June, 24th, the Times-News published an article on one of attorney Bowlin's court cases regarding a wrongful arrest that took place last year during the Rainbow Family Gathering in Cherokee National Forest. Last June, our client, a 60-year-old ...

On January 3, 2012, the Tennessean released an article regarding the state's entire stock of a key lethal injection drug. Since the state is completely out of the critical component of a series of three drugs used humanely kill death row inmates, ...

In December of 2012 the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Jason Burdick who was convicted of the attempted rape of a Davidson County attorney despite the fact that the applicable statute of limitations had expired. The attempted rape ...

The Bean Station Police Department Chief Phillip Robinette resigned from his position after his 21-year-old son was taken into custody after allegedly impersonating a police officer. On Friday, January 4, 2013, the police chief's son was ...

When two different people read the same criminal statute it is possible that those two individuals could come away with two entirely different interpretations of the same sentence. Normally this wouldn't cause much alarm, but when one of the ...

Most Tennesseans are probably somewhat familiar with the concept of double jeopardy. However, it is unlikely that many Tennesseans understand how double jeopardy protections actually work. Essentially double jeopardy protects a person from being ...

No doubt most drivers have encountered some sort of police run roadblock at which they were asked to show their driver's license before they were able to proceed through the roadblock. Such roadblocks are intended to be sobriety checkpoints and ...

Hamblen County Medical Examiner Tom Thompson reported that last year the number one cause of death for individuals under the age of 65 was overdose. Officials had hoped that the high volume of overdose deaths seen last year would even out and not ...

The last few years the stop and frisk policies of the NYPD have come under large amounts of scrutiny. A few years ago the NYPD instituted a "Stop, Question, Frisk" program that has been challenged by class action suits and has resulted in ...

Knoxville police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors have assembled a case which has left thirty-one (31) people facing drug charges related to dealing cocaine, marijuana, and pain pills. Authorities say it took two years of ...

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizens from "…unreasonable searches…" and for years the Supreme Court has produced a large amount of case law interpreting that protection. For years courts ...

A person can be arrested whenever they commit a crime in the presence of a police officer. But what happens when police conduct an investigation involving drugs, involving confidential informants and surveillance? How is a person charged with a crime ...

The high-profile murder trial of the woman accused of killing a Monroe County election official recently came to close. Jessica Kennedy was accused of first degree murder in the shooting death of Jim Miller. One of the key pieces of evidence that ...

As most members of the public have heard by now, there are new drugs on the market. These drugs are giving law makers a fit as they try and pass laws to regulate them, and business owners are caught in the mix. Whether it be bath salts, mimicking ...

The best answer for keeping your record "clean" of criminal convictions is to avoid getting convicted of a crime. However, that is not always an option for people. Up until July of this year Tennessee allowed for certain misdemeanor ...

In recent weeks a Hawkins County traffic stop for a seatbelt violation led to the discovery of seven "one pot" meth labs. This type of arrest is becoming all too common in East Tennessee as police stop more and more motorists for seatbelt ...

In recent weeks a Hamblen County single car accident caused a local Hamblen County Judge to sign a search warrant which allowed the Tennessee Highway Patrol to take the drivers blood despite the driver's refusal to give the sample. This result ...